Blog Comments Question?

Discussion in 'Blogging' started by alek, Dec 9, 2010.

  1. #1
    Hi

    I would like to ask if I allow dofollow comments in my medical blog so what will be the disadvantage of it?

    Will it be any problem in my ranking and PR?
     
    alek, Dec 9, 2010 IP
  2. Greg Carnegie

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    #2
    I doubt it will affect your PageRank or rankings (unless you will have links to many sites with illegal content), the only disadvantage would be that the link juice will be shared among the all the sites you are linking to so it will be harder to promote your next site (if any).
     
    Greg Carnegie, Dec 10, 2010 IP
  3. alek

    alek Banned

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    #3
    Yes I am thinking same dear. Thanks for your answer.
     
    alek, Dec 11, 2010 IP
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    if you change it to dofollow, then many people will rush to your blog just to spam and not reading
     
    avpower, Dec 11, 2010 IP
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    I would like to suggest allow do follow comments of few days so that people will know your blog and you will get traffic after some times you can use no follow attributes.
     
    jayrudalf, Dec 11, 2010 IP
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    The disadvantage is that noobs will flock to your blog to spam it for comment links. Especially if you don't moderate.
     
    hmansfield, Dec 11, 2010 IP
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    Do follow blogs generally attract lots more comments because people are looking to leave their links. So, you might have to waste a bit more time moderating those comments. There is no harm switching, I guess, because you can always switch back if it attracts too many spammers.
     
    audrey77, Dec 13, 2010 IP
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    This.

    Plus the fact that most of your comment will be spam and will discourage genuine readers from returning because it makes your site look like an affiliate site and not genuine.
     
    iTunes, Dec 14, 2010 IP
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    I wouldn't make your blog DoFollow; you'll get tons of spam and it will negatively hurt your search engine ranking (yes, I have personal experience with both). But yes, definitely allow comments and just delete the spam ones you get.
     
    TristanH, Dec 14, 2010 IP